Maurice Emile LeVois

Maurice Emile LeVois, Ph.D. was a tobacco industry consultant and his company was called LeVois & Associates.

Biography
Maurice LeVois was a principal scientist in Environmental Health Resources, an association of consulting epidemiologists and statisticians with offices in Mill Valley, California. He was formerly Director of the Veterans Administration Office of Agent Orange Research and Education, and was a scientist in the Agent Orange Study Unit at the Centers for Disease Control.

In 1993, Levois was asked by The Tobacco Institute to submit testimony criticizing the manner in which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Risk Assessment treated the issue of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), and its possible relationship to lung cancer. Levois stated that in his judgment, the risk EPA's assessment had "numerous basic flaws and cannot be relied on as an estimate of ETS-related risk."

Mr. Levois was a paid consultant to the Tobacco Institute. In 1996 he submitted comments to EPA, and he also worked with another industry consultant named Peter N. Lee on IARC rebuttal.

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